Book of Hours (Use of Paris) – Reconstructed Quire/Book

Reconstruction Summary: A reconstruction of a Book of Hours dismantled in part by Otto Ege (Cleveland, OH) in the 1940s and used as no. 30 in his "Fifty Original Leaves of Medieval Manuscripts" portfolios. The individual leaves were catalogued in the fall of 2017 by students in Lisa Fagin Davis' course at the Simmons School of Library and Information Science (Boston, MA), "The Medieval Manuscript from Charlemagne to Gutenberg." (Lisa Fagin Davis and her students at the Simmons School of Library and Information Science, Boston, Massachusetts.)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, London, Wilson's Ornithology, Boswell papers, other material : collected by the late Ormond G. Smith, removed from his New York City home and sold by order of the heir, Gerald H. Smith ; selections from the library of the late Florence Mathews of New York, sold by order of United States Trust Company of New York and G. Forrest Butterworth, Jr., executors, Milton's 'Paradise Lost', Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield, from the library of Adelaide B. Baylis, New York, illuminated and other manuscripts of the XIII-XVI centuries, Phillips' Ducks, Audubon's Birds of America ; property of two mid-western private collectors, flower prints ... sets of standard authors and other properties. 23 February 1939 Show description